lzy
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I run a small email hosting service. It started out as something I set up for family and friends, but has since grown into a small customer base.
We're deliberately keeping things simple. No AI, no scanning your emails for other purposes, and no selling your data. That's not something we're planning to change.
The focus is on doing email well: deliverability, reliability, and keeping our outbound reputation clean through strict anti-spam policies.
We support SMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and custom domains. It's fairly bare-bones, and we expect customers to know their way around email config.
It's also just $5/year.
https://www.cheapestemailhosting.com
This is similar to Singapore’s
https://go.gov.sg links.
Functions exactly like tinyurl, generally used by public officers for the various programmes/initiatives from the ministries and agencies.
I started with one long context but added multiple comments to fine tune it till I’m fully satisfied.
Posted by
lzy on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:16PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://imagehost.ing
Built this in a morning with Claude Code.Images auto-expire after 24h, keeps storage costs at zero. Burn-after-reading deletes on first view. No accounts, no tracking, no cookies.Cloudflare free tier only (Workers, KV, R2). Domain is the only cost (~$10/yr). No plans to monetise, just wanted to build something with this fun domain.curl -X POST https://api.imagehost.ing/upload -F...
May I know which claw are you using and why?
> A temporary e-mail address provider with deterministic addresses for attribution.
How does this work?
I’ve been running CheapestEmailHosting.com - email hosting for custom domains without enterprise pricing.
SMTP/IMAP/POP3, webmail (Roundcube), CalDAV/CardDAV, unlimited mailboxes, catch-all. Starting at $5/year for 2GB.
No marketing spend, and I terminate spammers immediately. If you run a legitimate domain, you subsidize yourself.
This isn’t for bulk senders or SLAs. It’s for developers and side-project founders who can configure their own clients and don’t want to pay $60-120/year.
https://www.cheapestemailhosting.com
Thanks for your interest. IMAPsync migrations are supported. No CardDAV/CalDAV. For wildcards, do you mean catch all? If so, that is supported as well.
Working on a low cost email service. Ditched Gmail for my custom domains to avoid lock-in risks, and I believe devs really need stupid-cheap ($10/yr 5GB, unlimited mailboxes/domains/aliases/SMTP/IMAP/webmail) high-quality hosting that nails deliverability with zero spam tolerance. Bootstrapped this instead of pricier options like FastMail. Thoughts?
https://www.lowcostmail.com
Very cool project. I've wanted something like this for ages but never had the patience to glue it all together. Do you plan to support group chats too? That was a huge headache in my case. Excited to see how this evolves, even if setup's a bit fiddly.
This looks promising, especially for folks who can't tolerate CPAP. Wonder how it performs long-term and if it messes with REM cycles. Also curious about cost and insurance coverage—sleep treatments tend to get expensie fast. Hope follow-up studies confirm these results without major side effects.
Neat idea. I’ve definitely been burned by silent timeouts in production before. Curious how this handles more complex cases like nested async calls or third-party dependencies that don't expose good hooks. Would be cool if this could somehow integrate with logging tools directly for more visbility.
This feels like the culmination of a long trend. Google shifting from indexing the web to replacing it. The idea of an “AI answer mode” burying actual sources is worrying, especially for niche or emerging topics where LLMs hallucinate confidently. I’d love to see metrics on how often users click through to original sources under the new interface. At some point, if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on. Curious whether this opens the door for competitors that prioritise raw links and transparency over synthesised summaries.
Interesting to see real-time AI copilots moving into the sales domain with this level of polish. The UI looks thoughtful, and the emphasis on SOC 2/GDPR compliance is smart. Sales orgs are often stuck between tooling that’s either too lightweight or too intrusive. I’m curious how well Nomi performs with accents or less structured conversations, which are common in outbound calls. Also wondering if reps actually trust or tune out live suggestions mid-call. Real-time assistance sounds great in theory, but in practice it can be distracting unless executed really well.
The TeleMessage dataset is massive and messy, and this tool lowers the barrier for journalists and researchers to extract meaningful insights. It’s also a reminder that “secure” enterprise tools often aren’t—especially when they’re built to satisfy compliance checkboxes rather than actual security principles. The fact that TM Signal was used by senior officials makes the plaintext logging and key exposure even more alarming. Kudos to Micah for not just reporting the breach but also enabling others to dig deeper.
Did they really give it away for free? I couldn't find any source for this information.
I'm open to requests for anyone wanting to get their own aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com email forwarder.
Mostly for fun. I'd be surprised if there were any real life applications for this!
And here I was wondering why my repo was suddenly getting starred. Glad you enjoyed my work and thanks for sharing it!
> But if a user deletes all the built-in apps that can be deleted, are they restored if the iOS device is reset?
Yes.
I really enjoy Planet Money too. As an economics noob, what type of reading/books do you recommend for one's foray into real world economics?
> For the few places that arn't, I dont think Lonely Planet is going to going to be much help unless your keep it in your breast pocket.
Thanks for this analogy. Made me chuckle.
I think you will want to go with the most common tld. In this case, .in for your home country and I believe .in adoption is strong enough in India?
The last thing you want is your emails going to a wrong tld:
[email protected]
going to
[email protected]
is very likely in your scenario for less tech-savvy contacts IMO.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but that is the literally the worst thing the ihob.com domain owner can do and will no doubt give IHob an edge if/when they file a UDRP complaint.
Posted by
lzy on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:16PM
from the domainnamewire.com dept.
Domain expired. Probably the owner felt it wasn't worth the annual registration fee to continue maintaining the service?